Mahendra Singh Dhoni Quotes

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, also known as MS Dhoni is the current captain of the Indian team. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, CB Series of 2007-08 and the Border-Gavaskar trophy 2008 in which they beat Australia 2-0. He also led the team to their first ever bilateral ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Dhoni has also been the recipient of many awards including the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first Indian player to achieve this feat), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour in 2009. As of November 2009, Dhoni is the highest ranked ODI batsman on the ICC Rankings List. Dhoni was named as captain of Wisden's first-ever Dream Test XI Team in 2009 and has topped the list of world's top 10 earning cricketers compiled by Forbes.

With the kind of the start they got it would have been difficult to restrict them to 300, but I think 340 would have been competitive and we could have looked to get it.

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni after India lost to South Africa in the final ODI / February 27, 2010

We have done well over the season, there have been injuries, we have missed key players, if you look at everything, we have done really well. Our bowling has improved in bits and pieces, we have done well. Youngsters are doing well. May be in one year we will also put up the best fielding side in the world.

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni after India won the ODI series 2-1 against South Africa / February 27, 2010

I think one of the best innings, you can say. It's always good to be on the other side, watching him score 200 runs. When he is tired and can't play the big shots, he was very clever to use the pace of the bowler and it's very difficult for the bowlers as they don't know where exactly to bowl.

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Sachin Tendulkar scoring a double century in ODI history / February 24, 2010

Once Viru got out, it was important to get some kind of a partnership going. They [Tendulkar and Karthik] went on with their innings, and they set a platform after which we were sure we would get 350-plus which would be a difficult target... Yusuf was sent up the order and with the talent he's got, he can be a great asset to the side.

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni on India scoring 401 in the second ODI / February 24, 2010

I have changed my batting a bit, but the situation demanded that kind [attacking] of innings... The ground is a small one, and we were a bit worried about the dew factor. But once they lost 3-4 early wickets, it was difficult for them to get back into the game.

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni on his strategy in the second ODI / February 24, 2010

The bowlers were really great. The wicket did nothing on the first day. It was not a turner as such but Mishy (Mishra) and Bhajji (Harbhajan) bowled really well,

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni crediting the bowlers for winning the second test against South Africa / February 18, 2010

Today we didn't have Zaheer and the bowlers bowled really well. We had lost one day's play and today we did not have Zaheer. We desperately wanted to be on the winning side because of the amount of effort that the three bowlers put in today,

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni crediting the bowlers for winning the second test against South Africa / February 18, 2010

There's some uncertainty over Laxman, who was in the nets today. He will come back and share with physio how he feels. Other than that all others are fit.